Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture: The Influence of Context and Collaboration in Sculptural Practice from the 18th Century to the Present
Sessions Convenors:
Rhona Warwick, University of Glasgow, r.warwick@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
Alison Yarrington, University of Glasgow, a.yarrington@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
The session is concerned with the impact of context and collaboration on the practice and profession of sculpture. From the late 18th century onwards, sculptural activity was transformed by urban expansion and the parallel development of teaching institutions, museums and exhibition cultures. The emergence of Modernism and the impact of the wars invariably influenced not only the conceptual framework for the medium of sculpture but the relationships borne from these events. Some of the over-arching questions addressed by the session include: regional- and gender- based marginalisation in sculptural practice; the extent to which the diversity of sculptors’ practice influenced or challenged other cultural arenas, such as literature or the conventional critical hierarchies of subject, medium and form; the impact upon current understanding of cultural geographies in relation to the metropolis and the regions; the extent to which sculpture, as the product of a uniquely collaborative process, involving studio assistants, carvers, foundries, architects and other specialist craftspeople, is a working process that continues to challenge accepted ideas of authorship and status.
Speakers:
Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University & PHL University College, Hasselt)
Women sculptors and their male collaborators: common practice?
Amy Mechowski (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Waxing and waning; the Casella sisters and the revival of renaissance-style wax portraits
Melanie Vandenbrouk-Przvbviski (Victoria and Albert Museum)
From La Petite Ecole to the Ionides residence in Hove: Alphonse Legros and French Sculpture in England in the second half of the 19th century
Owen Brown (University of Glasgow)
Mapping the practice, profession and influence of Sir William Goscombe John: London, Paris, Capel Bangor
Gareth Fisher (Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee)
The Plaster of Paris
Danielle Child (University of Leeds)
Late Capitalism and the ‘Expanded Field’: Fabricators, Facilitators and Contracted Labour
Joanna Soden (Royal Scottish Academy)
Sculptors and the Hydro Board
Denis Wardleworth (Independent)
Jacob Epstein and the Glaswegians: What happened in the Strand in 1937